Valentine history

Hinatagay og bulak; pagpadala og greetings card; love texts;mga regalo,pakig-date uban sa gihigugma, mangaon sa gawas, tan-aw sa sine, o suroy-suroy lang sa park, magbawon og popcorn o salted peanuts.

Generally mao kini ang atong pagsaulog sa St. Valentine’s Day.

Kinsa man ni si Valentine? Ania kining gikan sa Internet, kamo na lay hubad niini: The history of Valentine’s Day–and the story of its patron saint–is shrouded in mystery.

Approximately 150 million Valentine's Day cards are exchanged annually, making Valentine's Day the second most popular card-sending holiday after Christmas.

The Catholic Church recognizes at least three different saints named Valentine or Valentinus, all of whom were martyred.

Valentine was a priest who served during the third century in Rome. The Emperor outlawed marriage for young men, after finding that single men made better soldiers than those with wives and families.

Valentine, realizing the injustice of the decree, defied Claudius and continued to perform marriages for young lovers in secret.

When Valentine’s actions were discovered, Claudius ordered that he be put to death.

Other stories suggest that Valentine may have been killed for attempting to help Christians escape harsh Roman prisons, where they were often beaten and tortured.

An imprisoned Valentine actually sent the first “valentine” greeting himself after he fell in love with a young girl–possibly his jailor’s daughter–who visited him during his confinement.

He wrote her a letter signed “From your Valentine,” an expression that is still in use today.Valentine would become one of the most popular saints in England and France.

Valentine’s Day is celebrated in the middle of February to commemorate the anniversary of Valentine’s death or burial–which probably occurred around A.D. 270.

Pope Gelasius declared February 14 St. Valentine’s Day. Later, the day became associated with love, as it was commonly believed in France and England that February 14 was the beginning of birds’ mating season.

Valentine greetings were popular as far back as the Middle Ages. The oldest known valentine still in existence today was a poem written in 1415 by Charles, Duke of Orleans, to his wife while he was imprisoned in the Tower of London.

Americans probably began exchanging hand-made valentines in the early 1700s. In the 1840s, Esther A. Howland began selling the first mass-produced valentines in America. She is known as the “Mother of the Valentine.”